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For County Farm Bureau PAGE 4 - PLAINDEALER-WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1976 viscounts to Three New Directors Hold Rummage % Sale, Car Wash The McHenry County Viscount Drum and Bugle corps is sponsoring a rummage sale Sept. 24 and 25, and a car wash Sept. 25. The rummage sale will be held at the Lake in the Hills Activity center, 1115 Crystal Lake road, LITH, from 9 to 5 both days. Donations are welcome, and will be picked up on request. For pick-up call 338- 0942. The car wash will be manned by corps members.and will be held Sept. 25 at Crystal Lake Rental, 5955 Virginia road, Crystal Lake, from 7:30 a.m. until late afternoon. Viscounts'Invite County Youth To Special Program The McHenry County Viscount Drum and Bugle corps reminds everyone bet­ ween the ages of 12 and 21 that Thursday, Sept. 23, is the special recruiting night. This is a chance to find out more about drum corps. This event will be held at Viscount headquarters, 406 Woodstock street (in the American Legion), Crystal Lake, from 7 to 9 p.m. There will be movies and demon­ strations of all the things that Three new directors were elected to the board of directors of the McHenry County Farm Bureau. Announcement of the results of voting by farmers in the respective townships was made by John Martin, president, who is a retiring director Martin has served the maximum eight years per­ mitted by the by-laws. More than 450 people attended the annual meeting Monday night and heard Martin issue a warning that the danger of inflation continues to threaten the well-being of farmers. "Some policies of our national leaders could" lead to greater inflation, especially if we put people on the govern­ ment payrolls to 'lower unemployment' " he said in reference to Jimmy Carter's announced determination to lower unemployment if he becomes president. New Farm Bureau directors are Sylvester Justen, Hebron township, succeeding Jim Hallisy; Dennis Dietrich, Burton township, succeeding Jack Young; and Tom Deneen, Marengo township, succeeding John Martin. Larry Harris, executive are part of drum corps. Parents are also welcome, since there will be information available about the booster club. Refreshments will be served. secretary, reported on con­ tinued growth in membership, including farmer members. Total at the end of the mem­ bership year Aug. 31 was 4,452, compared with the year-ago total of 3,966. McHenry County Farm Bureau ranked in the top ten among membership in­ crease gaining seventh in the ranking of the ninety-seven County Farm Bureaus in Illinois. Harris said he and the Farm Bureau board and the Legislative committee have been increasingly involved in county governmental affairs. Among areas where Farm Bureau leadership is "wat­ chful, concerned, alert" are land use, waste disposal, zoning and use of tax dollars in the county. He said all citizens benefit by Farm Bureau's responsible watchdog approach to the legislative process in both Springfield and Washington. 1NGS TOME- Golden Gleams Ye shall not respect per­ sons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great. -Deuteronomy 1:17. Respect a man, he will do the more. -James Howell. Our French Past, Du Sable, Clark And Illinois County, Virginia (Sixth in a regional history series by Virginia Differding and Walter'Wallace, prepared as a Bicentennial contribution from Northern Illinois University. -- Ed.) From 1763 to 1783, the Illinois country was exchanged bet­ ween the great European powers of France and England, became part of Virginia and served as the western front of the American Revolution. France's hold over her North American colonies was never strong. Frenchmen lived in relative harmony with the Indians, pursuing trade and missionary activity rather than pushing them off their land. Relations with Britain and Spain, however, were another story. The Spanish and French were rivals for an American empire along the Mississippi River. Numerous skirmishes between them took place for nearly a century, with the Spanish inciting Indians in Missouri to attack the bottom lands. Fearing a highly organized Protestant society next door spurgeons Starts Sept. 19...Ends Oct. 3! HOSIERY SALE Save on every single pair of Spurgeon's hosiery for men, women, kids! 20% off or more when you buy 3 pair of any advertised style ... no less than 15% off on any others! Comfortable Control Top Pantyhose 3A7S pr. mT 1.6a pr. Reg. $1.99 pr. Save $1.22 on 3 pr.! All-in-one comfort; cotton crotch. Popular colors. 4 sizes fit 90 to 160 lbs. 4'10" to 5'11". Save now! Sheer Pantyhose--Fall Colors! 3pr. 47$ pr. Reg. 59c pr. Save 57$ on 3 pr.! 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Violent struggles over land claims in the Ohio River valley erupted in 1754 between France and England, spilling over all of France's American territory. Five years of fierce fighting ended when the British cap­ tured the French capital of Quebec in 1759, seizing French lands. As fighting persisted in Europe, the English fought to keep the lid on their victory on the other side of the Atlantic. Peace came in 1763. Ac­ cording to the Treaty of Paris, territory from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico and between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River went to England. Lands west of the Mississippi went to Spain. France was allowed to keep its city of New Orleans. While a Revolution developed to the east, the Illinois country experienced a period of stagnation and disorder. English relations with In­ dians were poor. Warfare was commonplace. The largest and most famous struggle between the two peoples culminated in Pontiac's Uprising, referred to by some historians as a "conspiracy." Pontiac, a leader of the Ot­ tawa nation in southwestern Michigan, organized war parties in response to English treaty violations. From 1763 to 1765, confrontations between Indians and English took place in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, as well as in Illinois. The English were the ultimate victors, but tensions persisted throughout their * reign over the western lands. In the bottom lands and the Fever river mining villages, F r e n c h c o m m u n i t i e s degenerated without financial jrt from the English. In t, the English seemed only interested in fortifying old French forts at Kaskaskia, Vincennes and Massoc. During this period, however, the Che-ka-gau portage enjoyed a revival. Though still an In­ dian and French crossroads, the portage had had no per­ manent residents after 1700. Sometime between 1773 and 1779, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a black man who had been a fur trapper and trader along the Great Lakes, settled permanently at the old fort, establishing a headquarters for what became an extensive trading network. Du Sable quickly developed the portage into an early in­ dustrial center on the edge of the prairie. Besides a trading outpost, Du Sable's complex included meat processing, a dairy, a flour mill, a bakery and a distillery. Besides being a farmer, miller, baker, distiller, trapper and trader, he seems also to have been an accomplished carpenter, cooper, rope-maker and tanner. He traded as far norjth as Mackinac Island, as far south as the bottom lands, eastward into northern Indiana and probably westward to the Mississippi. Du Sable was also a revolutionary. British Com­ mander Arent Schulyer de Peyster complained that Du Sable organized Indians against the British, who became so annoyed that they arrested him in August, 1779, for conspiring with the rebel cause. His arrest came at Trail Creek trading post, near present-day Michigan City, In., while he was delivering foodstqffs for George Rogers Clark's expedition across southern Illinois and northern Indiana, the American revolution's most extensive military operation away from the eastern seaboard. Du Sable's capture, however, was only one part of a much larger drama begun ten years earlier and culminating with Illinois becoming a county of Virginia. Pioneering spirits from the east began homesteading in Kentucky and Tennessee after 1769. From the outset they clashed with Indians, but after 1776 they also contended with British raids. Clark, a 21-year-old Virginian who worked in Harrodsburg, Ky., as a surveyor, organized an army of about 100 settlers who marched northward in June, 1778, seeking to neutralize the strategically important British forts at Massoc, Kaskaskia, Vincennes and Detroit, from which the raiding parties had been sent. Fort Massoc was deserted and taken quickly.. Clark's army then marched to Kaskaskia. Arriving there on July 4, they divided into three companies, taking the fort by complete surprise. Within days, other villages in the bottom lands were captured without a shot fired. Because their mother country had allied with the American revolutionaries, local Frenchmen looked upon Clark as a liberator. ' Assuming such support would be forthcoming at Vincennes, Clark sent a two- man delegation there. Within a day of their arrival, Vincenne's citizenry eagerly swore allegiance to Virginia. Upon hearing of these events, the Virginia legislature set up Illinois county on Dec. 8, 1778, basing the action upon the colonial charter that extended the state's western boundaries to the Pacific ocean. When hearing of this startling news, the English lieutenant governor of the western territories, Henry Hamilton, led a regiment of 600 British regulars to Vincennes, which they immediately occupied. Clark responded by leading 150 volunteers to retake Vin­ cennes and its fort at nearby Sackville. After a grueling march in February, 1779, they arrived within a few miles of Fort Sackville, where the enemy troops were stationed. Completely surprising Hamilton and his men, they briefly exchanged gunfire, whereupon Clark's forces laid siege. After two days, Hamilton surrendered. Hamilton and his men'were marched to Williamsburg, Va., as prisoners of war. Indians captured at the fort were brutally tomahawked by Clark's men as blood revenge for the attacks on Kentucky. With Massoc, Kaskaskia, and Vincennes under Virginia's control, Clark turned toward his utimate objective, Detroit, which was the center of western British authority. "1 The campaign, however, was stalled at Sackville. Money, men, and provisions promised by the legislature neyer arrived. John Todd was appointed governor of the territory. His old friend, Clark, was waiting when Todd arrived *t Kaskaskia in May, 1779. They immediately took stock of their government and newly secured territory. By December, Clark divided his forces between the villages in the bottom lands, Vincennes, and Cahokia. With new volunteers, he went in 1780 to the convergehce of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, where they built Fort Jefferson as a command post on Jwo s t r a t e g i c a l l y i m p o r t a n t waterways. With Du Sable neutralized, the northern reaches of Virginia's Illinois county were controlled by'the British. For the following three years, the British repeatedly tried to recapture Illinois from Clark without success. C o n s t a n t l y c h a n g i n g alliances with Indian nations and the Spanish enabled Clark to hold tenaciously onto the south until the Treaty of Paris in 1783 ceded Illinois county to the United States. Relieved of duty and his. regiment disbanded on Jan. 18, 1783, Clark thought that his job was done as he returned to Kentucky. But ultimate victory was still a generation away. NEXT: Illinois After the Revolution. Youth in Agriculture Hogs Make A Winner ALEXANDRIA, VA. - Hogs are beautiful -- at least that's the way they look to Dirk W^bb, a 20-yeaur old member of the Future Farm­ ers of America and current winner of the National FFA Swine Production Proficiency Award. Dirk lives with his par­ ents on a 1,000 acre diversified crop and livestock farm near Elk City, Oklahoma, where he has his own swine breeding and feeding operation. A member of the Elk City FFA Chapter, Dirk got serious about the hog business after he enrolled in vocational agri­ culture. Winning the National FFA Swine Production A- ward, sponsored by the Pfizer Agricultural Division, capped four years of steady growth and improvement in Webb's swine operations. Beginning with 14 head in 1971, Dirk spurgeons Save Money Comfortably! LOVABLEPRICE SAVERS Underline Fall Wardrobes--Have 2 or More! Seam-Free & Stretch Bras You Can Afford Both! 2„*5 2.59 ea. #702--Seam-Free Special, cross­ over style; flberfill lined. Plunge front; stretch straps, undercup band, sides and back. #845--Stretch Bra of nylon tricot with soft, patterned nylon cup; fi- berfill shaped. Stretch sides, back and straps. Back Curves Stretch Brief 2 *5 2.59 ea. #7288--Soft . . . smooth! Elasti- cized back seam lifts, separates, rounds. Lined crotch; front panel. Back Curves Pants Liner each #7588--Same smooth styling as stretch brief, but below the knee length. 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As a result of his testing pro­ gram, Webb has increased feed efficiency to 2.5 lb. of feed per lb. of grain, and litter size now averages 11 pigs per sow. Dirk hasn't confined his ef­ forts to the swine industry. He's a leader in school too. Now a junior in Agricultural Education at Oklahoma State, Dirk is Vice President of the Agricultural Student Aasocia- tion in the College of Agri- ' culture. He is also Secretary * of the Oklahoma State FFA Alumni Association When he finishes college, Dirk plans to teach vocation­ al agriculture for "three or four years. Then I want to go back to the farm," says Dirk, "and be as good a farmer as my Dad." The Future Farmers of America (FFA) is the na­ tional organization of high school students preparing for careers in agricultural pro­ duction and agribusiness. To­ day, there are nearly half a million FFA members in public schools offering in­ struction in vocational agri­ culture. The FFA National Center is in Alexandria, Va. 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